CBSE Class 12 English Core Question Paper 2005 (1)

CBSE Class 12 English Core Question Paper 2005 (1). Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions.Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations.

A1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. My father gets a faraway look in his eyes that’s unmistakable. As he looks towards the horizon and his eyes seek out he bright flashes of snow-capped peaks, we all know what he’s thinking.Mountain tops have always had that magnetic effect on him.

2. As l grew up I inherited some of my father’s restlessness. I know many people think there must be some compulsion for the son of Edmund Hillary to climb mountains. They assume that I need to compete, or measure up as if there was some strong mark on stone that says, “Thou shalt climb mountains”—and in particular Everest, whether you like it or not. But for me it’s simpler than that. I think families are like factories some manufacture lawyers while, others produce landscape gardeners The Hilary family is a limited production mountaineering establishment.

3. Today at the age of 48, I am a determined mountain love to climb them; love, to dream about them. I have been on more than 30 mountaineering expeditions, from the Himalayas to the Antarctic. And yes I have climbed Everest— twice. I treasure the same things that drew my father to climbing—great feeling of friendship and trust among people who work together, sense of pleasure and excitement, especially in dangerous places where your life depends upon making the right call. I guess I am luckier than most because I can fall back on all that my father has taught me. One devastating day in 1995 this advice saved my life.

4. Just below the summit of the mountain known as K2 or the “savage mountain” of the Himalayas—there is a steep ice channel called—”The Bottleneck” was among a party of eight climbers heading for the summit, with just 400 meters left to climb. Perched there, 8200 meters above sea-level and looking east along the northern edge of the Karakoram Mountains to the Tibetan Plateau, I noticed curls of ominous cloud began to move in suddenly and quickly with great force.

5. As the weather worsened, I became very concerned. I stopped. Something didn’t feel right. At that moment I clearly heard my father’s voice. Down. Go down. Stick to your guns, Peter.

6.Then from above me, I heard another voice – a woman’s. “Come on up. Use the red rope.” Alison Hargreaves, a fellow climber, was encouraging me to join her. Not for you, Peter was that my father’s voice again? The unsettled feeling in me grew stronger. Finally I told Jeff Lakes, my climbing partner, that I was going down. He too was feeling unsure, but decided to go on ahead. As I headed down, I looked back at Jeff a couple of time, until a thick, threatening cloud blocked the view. Soon, the same fast-moving cloud would engulf the summit and plunge me into an isolated world of terror.

7. Don’t be afraid to make your own decisions.Don‘t be afraid to stand alone.Thai was my father’s voice.

8. Alone in body but not in spirit I descended.But with fear tapping upon my shoulders,I was caught in the frightening situation of the rising storm.The flanks “of the mountain were out of control and so, perhaps, was I.

9. Fear makes you careful.Fear makes you good.Fear, my father told me, is not something you manage.So I seized on what I could control: a well-clipped de sender and a taut rope. For hours I continued to go down rope after plunging rope—every rope one closer to the ice ledge at Camp-2.

10. When I awoke in my tent the next morning, it was silent, sunny, still.I alone had successfully descended from the summit pyramid of K2 that night.The seven above were dead.

11. Life in a famous family has its advantages and disadvantages. — Lunch with Indira Gandhi or a trip to the North Pole with Neil Armstrong are one — although a rather extraordinary — side of the coin. The other can be a battle with identity and independence. When I am 80 years old myself, I know I will more than likely still be greeted with, “Wait a minute, you’re Ed Hillary’s son!” But my father is quite a man and I am proud of him.

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